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* The La-Brea Tar Pits<ref>http://www.creationengineeringconcepts.org/index.php?p=1_25_LA-BREA-TAR-PITS-PHOTOS</ref> in California have yielded massive skeletons from pre-Flood times. Lions and the saber-toothed cat<ref>http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_biggest_prehistoric_cat_ever?classic=true</ref> are noted to have monstrous sizes but weak jaws. Both of these are predicted from the Creation model since pre-Flood animals were not natural predators and did not eat meat {{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=1|verses=30}} so strong jaws would be irrelevant. Predation and carnivory were only in full swing after the Flood {{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=9|verses=3}}. Some have noted that dinosaurs have been found with teeth of other dinosaurs in their bones, indicating an attack. The Bible is clear about the corruption of all flesh just prior to the Flood, so we might expect animals to turn violent, escalating the violence on the earth to untenable levels. However, that these dinosaurs survived the attack could also mean that the attacking dinosaur only intended to defend and not kill. Either way, we cannot manufacture context from simple teeth-in-bone.Actually, there is a hint in the Bible that there was pre-Flood carnivory, although I won’t be dogmatic about it. That is, when Cain was enraged that God (YHWH) rejected his sacrifice, God counseled him that “sin is crouching at the door” {{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=4|verses=7}} . God pictures sin as ‘crouching’, but this means ‘ready to spring forth’. The same imagery is used in {{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=49|verses=9}} , “he crouched as a lion”. Indeed, in Genesis {{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=4|verses=7}} , the verb rōbets (רבץ) is masculine to agree with the implied wild beast, not feminine to agree with ‘sin’. So sin is like a lion waiting to pounce on Cain and consume.Scripture doesn’t actually say explicitly that most fossils are from the [[Flood]], but it does tell us that scoffers will have no excuse to deny it (2 Peter 3:3–6), implying that it left overwhelming evidence. And indeed, the fossils are evidence of rapid burial, and usually under water, so biblical creationists since geological pioneer Nicolaus Steno (1631–1686) have used them as evidence for a global Flood.

Not only do these fossils show death, they also show clear evidence of carnivory. For example, the fossil record includes a turkey-sized Compsognathus found with a lizard in its belly; a famous fossil of Velociraptor locked in mortal combat with a Protoceratops, and a T. rex coprolite (fossil dung) found with a “high proportion (30–50%) of bone fragments”.6 So this looks like clear evidence for carnivory.T. Rex bit a live hadrosaur—the wound showed evidence of some healing. This shows that T. Rex did not just scavenge dead dinosaurs. <ref>[http://creation.com/animal-carnivory-began-at-fall When did animals become carnivorous? ]</ref>